#explanations

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

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It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

#explanations #immutable #law #only #performance

There are no explanations, there are no answers. ↗

— Jessica Lange

#explanations

Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric. ↗

— Kary Mullis

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What happened?" Bailey asks. "That is somewhat difficult to explain," Tsukiko answers. "It is a long and complicated story." "And you're not going to tell me, are you?" She tilts her head a bit ... "No, I am not," she says. "Great," Bailey mutters under his breath... "The bonfire exploded? How?" "Remember when I said it was difficult to explain? That has not changed. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#humor #secrets #story #change

When I knelt to kiss her hand, she sighed heavily. 'Ask me nothing,' she said. 'Life itself is too joyless to be more embittered by explanations. Let all rest between us as now. I will love coldly, you warmly, with no nearer approaching.' ("The Basilisk") ↗

— R. Murray Gilchrist

#life #love #life

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

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The traces of our life here will lie cold and still, dreaming, like the brittle eyes of dolls in an abandoned cabin, and the last men will look to them for explanations, or apologies. ↗

— Tim Cahill

#explanations #forgotten-past #future-generations #dreams

It's simpler to believe in a miracle. ↗

— William Golding

#explanations #miracles #religion #religion